KVR Audio

bermudagold · Post by **bermudagold** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 12:38 am

jamcat wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 12:00 am I was listening to some T-Pain and I noticed he had pitch artifacts all over his voice. This must be why nobody bought his record.

those artifacts are part of his signature style...nobody?...he has sold 50 million records, over a billion streams, 15 billboard hits, 6 grammys, and just sold his catalog for millions to private equity

procrastive · Post by **procrastive** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 4:36 am

bermudagold wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 12:38 am
jamcat wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 12:00 am I was listening to some T-Pain and I noticed he had pitch artifacts all over his voice. This must be why nobody bought his record.
those artifacts are part of his signature style...nobody?...he has sold 50 million records, over a billion streams, 15 billboard hits, 6 grammys, and just sold his catalog for millions to private equity

There's this thing called sarcasm. Have you heard of it?

bermudagold · Post by **bermudagold** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 5:47 am

procrastive wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 4:36 am
bermudagold wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 12:38 am
jamcat wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 12:00 am I was listening to some T-Pain and I noticed he had pitch artifacts all over his voice. This must be why nobody bought his record.
those artifacts are part of his signature style...nobody?...he has sold 50 million records, over a billion streams, 15 billboard hits, 6 grammys, and just sold his catalog for millions to private equity
There's this thing called sarcasm. Have you heard of it?

ha!...id gotten so used to kvr being in dark mode lately,...that I totally missed it...my bad jamcat lol

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 8:15 am

I'm just going to dedicate the rest of my posts in this thread to making fun of stupid shit Zeisner says.

Zeisner · Post by **Zeisner** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 10:06 am

pdxindy wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 11:37 pm With minimal effort, everyone at the party would love it and nobody would care how it was made.

AI is great for funny memes, no doubt.

Tubeman · Post by **Tubeman** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 10:14 am

pdxindy wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 7:16 pm Ace Studio 2.0 is easily affordable. Even the Pro version is only $22/month (purchase plan). Lots of people spend more than that on DAW and Plugin purchases.

The full price is $528 and even though it says "$22/mo.", it also says "Billed yearly" on the same page. Which one is it? I suppose you own the software after 2 years?

Zeisner · Post by **Zeisner** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 10:20 am

pdxindy wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 11:37 pm In Ace Studio, you can sing in your lyrics and turn it into a credible rendition of your intended song in a day or less of working on it.

I correct myself - you're not able to hear any artifacts.

Zeisner · Post by **Zeisner** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 10:22 am

pdxindy wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 11:17 pm
Zeisner wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 8:27 pm I'm just tired of those "AI is already on par with top quality production" comments.
I didn't say that.

Well, you added it later on. Let me guess - 65? 70? For the hearing damage statistics...

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 1:57 pm

Zeisner wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 10:20 am
pdxindy wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 11:37 pm In Ace Studio, you can sing in your lyrics and turn it into a credible rendition of your intended song in a day or less of working on it.
I correct myself - I can only produce crap results with lots of artifacts and I blame it on the tools.

Here, I fixed that to an actual correction

Zeisner · Post by **Zeisner** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 2:05 pm

With the hearing damage being the least of your problems...

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 2:10 am

I bet my 67 year old soldier's ears can hear a lot more in a busy mix than yours.

Tubeman · Post by **Tubeman** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 4:15 am

Zeisner wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 10:20 am
pdxindy wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 11:37 pm In Ace Studio, you can sing in your lyrics and turn it into a credible rendition of your intended song in a day or less of working on it.
I correct myself - you're not able to hear any artifacts.

Ace Studio doesn't seem to have any heavier genre styles which is a bummer. No "Metal" category at all and the Rock category has only four male voices and they all sound meh. I guess heavy/metal doesn't exist to them but they have all these weird pop/hop/hip/whatever categories.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 5:41 am

Give it time. None of them had anything close to EBM or Industrial in 2024 but that changed towards the end of last year.

Zeisner · Post by **Zeisner** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:15 am

Tubeman wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 4:15 am Ace Studio doesn't seem to have any heavier genre styles which is a bummer. No "Metal" category at all and the Rock category has only four male voices and they all sound meh. I guess heavy/metal doesn't exist to them but they have all these weird pop/hop/hip/whatever categories.

Of course. Offering all genres/styles and all mixtures of those is simply impossible, just like realistic sounding voices and instruments.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 2:25 pm

BONES wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 5:41 am Give it time. None of them had anything close to EBM or Industrial in 2024 but that changed towards the end of last year.

Yup... it's all developing very fast. Not just Genres, but the quality as well.

If AI replaces musicians, does the entire plugin industry die with them?